Sunday, November 09, 2008

How winning can be the WORST thing that happened to you or the need for Mobile Mormon Churches in California

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Alternate Title: Mormon Church Declares - "When we do it, it is moral responsibility, when you do it, it is racism"

At first it appeared that we might have to consider answering the calls to boycott Utah (I am going to be there by month end) or the Mormon Church (I could care the least for any kind of church or temple).

Hmm, but it looks like they dug themselves in.

I am sure the 5-star rateable board room of the Mormon Church in Utah must resemble very little like the place where people who are happy congregate right now.

See, for years, they were practicing on their own corner. First Mitt Romney's unsuccessful run did not make them too happy - almost indicating that at least among conservative voters, Mormonism is not winning any special votes.

Then came Hate, I mean Eight.

I cannot but laugh to think at how much they must be kicking themselves in. Here is what has resulted, all thanks to the Mormon Church and their 22.5 Million $$$:

1. Their church has now been permanently damaged, which even 22.5 Billion $$$$$ cannot fix.

2. Gay Marriage Ban WILL be DEFEATED SOON in California.

I find it amusing thinking forward to a time when we will be calling them to congratulate them on bringing equality to California.

I will blog again that day. Very soon.



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Friday, November 07, 2008

To rob the gay man and pay the chicken - California's darkest moment in the 21st century...

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I consider myself a Californian, having lived in the lovely, crazy, out of its own mind state for about 7-ish year now. I cherish her history, her peoples, her riches, her Gold and many other things.

However, California has a very very dirty side - Her history includes a radio reporter who once claimed that a plane crash was not of concern because it took with it only "a few deportees".

The city of Los Angeles once tried to prevent fellow Americans enter the city limits during the depression era when they were trying to escape the sand storms.

Then there were other big and small cases of discrimination of immigrants, including efforts to prevent children of illegal immigrants from obtaining education because of choices their parents made...

But nothing breaks your heart more than when Californians show more concern for the animals they are about to eat than the men and women that they live with as a society.

I am not gay and I don't vote. My simple question is, how can we allow money from outside the state and a few priests inaugurate one of our darkest moments in modern history?

I really, really hope the courts set this grave wrong right as soon as possible.

And hopefully, in 2012 the 52-48 will switch around!

As to those protesting peacefully (not you jerks jumping on cars), my heart goes out to you!

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Being part of Human History....the election of Barack Obama!!!

There is nothing funny in this post, I don't care who reads it but there is a lot of happiness!!! This is not about politics or partisanship or ideology either.

I am a very hard critic and very very hard to win over, and I don't care what you think about it.

I started with serious doubts of Obama's experience and how he would hold up against a Republican onslaught in a very important year for Democrats. I was a big fan of Hillary Clinton and did not hide my disappointment at her loss.

I was reconciling myself to Obama as a candidate. As the time went on - and between August and now, it was so short indeed, my opinions slowly changed.

Everyone who lives in the time of a hero has a moment of faith.

True, Obama is yet to do what will qualify him to be a hero.

And its not about him being a hero.

Its about the hope he has sold us on.

ANYONE can become ANYTHING there is to become if they are honest to themselves and they have the determination.

Senator Barack Obama converted me on the third and final debate.

There was Senator John McCain, to whom I became endeared through Jon Stewart's Daily Show, really riling him up - saying all these un-McCainly things...

And there was this man, cool, composed, confident and dignified...

That was the moment, I knew, there is no single doubt in my mind - this is the man, Barack Obama who will lead us into a world filled with hope, determination and progress.

True, his Presidency will start riddled with problems. True, tomorrow morning we will not wake up to a world minus suffering.

BUT,

we have hope today.

The hope that millions of people who lived and heard Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. had.

I have a dream, you have a dream, we all have dreams.

And now, we have one more thing....hope!

History, determination and grit!!!

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It never gets better than this. Here I am, sitting in my hotel room, lapping up the news and loading up on coffee..

and there, is a 92 year old woman whose age was not the least part of her determination to be heard. She voted, straight from an ambulance.

No one in their right mind would not want to be part of this moment in history, as we are only hours away from Senator Barack Obama, a person I did not initially support (I was a die-hard Hillary fan and I also used to like the maverick McCain who used to show up on the Daily Show before he went moose hunting and lip-sticking on us!)...

And, I am humbled and honored to see so many people, young and old work with grit and determination to create what will be repeated over and over in history books.

And, I don't even vote...

Viva Owen!!!

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